Mark your Calendars!
Annual Ontario Natural Building Tour - Sunday September 29th from 10am-4pm.
A fantastic opportunity to view a wide range of natural homes and buildings across Ontario. The homes feature straw bale, rammed earth, hempcrete and many more natural building methods, as well as alternative energy and heating systems and much more!
The map below shows locations currently confirmed for the tour - but check back often as locations are added almost daily.
If you have a home that you would like to have featured on the tour, please contact us.
Tickets for this self-guided tour are $10 pp and available here.
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The 2019 Ontario Natural Building Coalition's annual
Natural Building Conference & AGM 2019 - over for another year.
This year's theme was: "Healthy Homes"
This year's conference theme was "Healthy Homes". For our technical content, we were excited to tap into our own roster of professional members to share their expertise on working with healthy, natural materials. How to presentations included material content data research, deciphering MSDS data as well as the famous ‘Red List’. We also pursued presentations by experts on the microbiome currently doing research in the US. There were case studies of a recent renovation as well as the results of fire and water damage to a straw bale building.
Many thanks to all our presenters, sponsors and attendees - see you all next year!
A big thank you to our 2019 conference sponsors!
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See photos of the 2018 conference.
Photos of the 2016 conference here.
Click here for photos of the 2015 conference.
Click here for an article and photos of the 2014 conference.
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THANK YOU!
The Ontario Natural Building Coalition would like to thank all the homeowner hosts and tour-goers who participated in our Annual Ontario Natural Homes Tour
on Sunday September 30, 2018.
Over 30 natural homes and buildings across Ontario opened their doors for participants to see examples of straw bale, rammed earth, light clay straw, timber frame, off grid, passive solar, and many other natural building methods and alternative technologies.
If you missed this year's tour, please check back next summer for the details of the 2019 tour. Until then, please respect homeowners privacy and only drive to the homes if arrangements have been made with the homeowner.
Natural building construction uses locally obtained and renewable materials, to produce homes and buildings that are visually unique and healthy to live in, while striving to keep energy consumption and its’ associated emissions as low as possible.
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Visit our Natural Building Gallery to see houses built out of straw, wood & earth!
A Natural Home Tours Thank You
Over the years, many homes and buildings have participated in our Natural Building Annual tour.
Many of the homes that have been featured were models of innovation and energy efficiency and featured living roofs, natural clay wall finishes, rainwater catchment systems, grey water systems, composting toilets, while others incorporated solar and wind electrical systems, high efficiency wood burning appliances, solar domestic hot water systems, as well as a variety of other interesting green technologies.
The Ontario Natural Building Coalition would like to thank all the volunteer homeowners who have over the years graciously opened their doors and welcomed tour-goers. The annual tour would not be possible without them!
Click here for an article about one of the homes on our recent tour.
